On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:37:47AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:28:46AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : : The default answer should probably be yes, : : Or maybe not... After all, the main point of taking a reference is : to nail down particulars so you can bypass the identification phase : next time and deal directly with your object (or proxy object). : : And there's always closures when you want to finesse partial results : one way or the other...
So basically, with respect to the original question, it means that where our sugar desugars to premature reference-taking, we're limited to .wrap and .assuming solutions--but those are probably powerful enough to reintroduce MMD and delegation where needed. Seems like we're still covered... Larry